LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 24 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An iiu(ui'st was hold 1 by Mr. -k B. Evans (IV roller} yesterday .afternoon into t'h-e cin•iiiiv.tamx , K of t.|i.c death of an in,mate of the Mental named '( I-L-orge A lideison Smith. Tin- evukuwe shewed thai. deceased -luwli exhibited signs i>f itsj>«uiiißS, and as an eX'tra pveeau-tion Ivo ha.d been pi a,cc<L in 'a : j la-t-'-ri t-tl roi.-m. louring Thursday night he wits vitsitcrl at fiT<|iu:nt intervals hy the warders, .and when, spoken to a'- 2 uV.onk was ealini. At 5 oY.lo-<-k ye.st.er-d-a.v morning he- was found 1 with his *,c«<l rolled. in a blanket a.nd .a piece sniffed down h:s t.hroait. .Artitieia 1 respiration was tried for some time without success. A verdict of suicide while 'insane was returned.

SMer Avabamia. representative of Vedanta. will k-etu.ie to-morrow night at 7 o'clock, at the Foresters' Hall, upon "Who was .Adam ami Eve. and where was the Garden of Eden V' from the Vei'.uita- standpoint. Tho , public; are invited by advertisement.

Tho "Marlborough Express" reports that, the award of the Commissioner in tho ReinviYktown bridge ass.essim.ent relieves the Nelson City Council and the Wflimea County CoiuiciJ of any contribution. The assessments are given as follows: —Belarus Hoad Board. 40 per cent.. Blenheim 80-rough Council. 25 pe.r cent. ; Oma.ka Road Board, 16 per cent. ; Havclock Town Board. 5 per ceii';-. ; Spring Creek Road Board. 3 per cent. ; and Pie ton Borough Council, 2 per cent.

For tho fortnight ending yesteiylay 887 animals were slaughtered at tho Corporation Abattoir, made np of 59 cattle. 9 calves. 545 sheep. 216 lambs. 58 pigs. One cow and one sheep were condcniiued.

During the past fortnight only three eases of scarlet fever have been reported in the citv.

"Docs Lt n:ia,their what .a. man believes''" is tlii' subject -of -a- isormon bo pleached at, the PiH-hnxMi-d M-elt.hodist Church t.o-m<»ri ow evening -by the Rev. C. Kaii.-n in continuation «f -hiis seizes cf Smvd-ay cvenin-i? o-uesliions. Special rc:llci't:«iii)s" it i's also notified. will be 'taken ii|> in akl of foreign miastons.

Ir. Dcsgr-angr*. local- mnnngtr for Messrs Cha.s. and Co.. Iki© received a wino from Dr. Hr.rrisis a.d'vising Unit it was impossible £■ .r the She Hie. .id Choir to visit Nelson.

The poi.i c o yesterday searched the beach along the Moutere Bluff for traces of the missing fisherman Charleis Dahlgrcn. but without succes. Furtbor search Is being made to-day.

The annual sale in connection with the New Zealand Church Missionary Association will be hsld in the Diocesan Library ou Wednesday next, at 2 ii.m. There will be the various .Japanese, Indian. Chinese and American articles, particulars .of which will bo found in tile advertisement.

At n picture theatre in London, during the progress of a stirring drama a girl in the audience astonished her rcighbours by repeating the words which were being spoken by the actors. They were obviously the right and appropriate words: they <:on!d nor have'been invented. The girl was lip-reading.

The "Intransigcant'' (Paris) publishes a 'tate-inent obtained ''from the best, and most reliable sources," that King Alfonso is suffering from lung trouble. At the request of Queen Una, it is stated, King Alfonso visited a French specialist, . Ur Moure, at- Bordeaux. The. doct'or' found- he iva s suffer in cr from lung trouble, and advised him not to spend the next, winter in Spain on account of the climate, but at a Swiss resort. The paper further states that an estate has been bpughfc at this place, and that a large villa is being erected there for King Alfonso 's use.

The King lias probably more naval tiniforiN, s . than any other man. Indeed. the Kaiser is the only ruler who emulates him in this matter; for not only lmvie these- monarchs verv large yurdrobe of uniforms for the naval and other maritime purposes of their own conn-try, but each holds complimentary, naval rank in foreign navies, and has complete sets of uniforms accordingly. Also, King ■George is honorarv colonel in many foreign regiments, in addition . to holding similar rank im several of -our own. Tn the case of the chief foreign naval and military appointments, it may be mentioned that four uniforms —that is to say, full dress, undress, mes s , kit. and overcoat. —are usirallv necessary. iThen there are the full robes of l the Knights of the Garter, of St. Patrick and 'of the Thistle; and His Majesty belongs, to various home and foreign: order s of clrivalrv, for each of which there are special collars and decorations.

X<ady Tfarberton, whose death recently occurred, invariably wore the "rational" costume when cycling, a.nd she iiiever minsed ail opportunity of advocating its adoption. Women's dress, as usually worn, instead of being- a help and a protection to the wearers-, was, she held, just the contrary, and, owing to its construction, was not only heavy and exhausting for walk in e but as'it trailed into all kinds of filth in the road it distributed disease- germs in the form of dust over the house which germs were in due course 'inhaled by everyone. '' Trying to cling t.'o a d,res s . modelled 1 on lines unsuited to the human figure was." she once said, "not womanly, but merely silly. Women should learn not to be ashamed of their true Godgiven form, and adopt a method of dressing- which wtould be a physical help instead of the impedimental di-sease-producing monstrosity of the nineteenth century.' ' M.r A. Gould ardv-eirtisos a,n oxhi-bit-ic.n and auatie.n sale of French "pastels, oil and water -colicair Daiintinss "during the it-ext. 'W.cie ; k. the work o.f Waiter P. Sandford, a n pit ire New Zeala.ud-. who has 'oce.n naiiKin.y, in Australia.